LANCEBROGADE 5
KOBENHAVN K1001
TELECRAMMADRESSE
SUKKERFABBRIKKER
TELEFON : ASTA GISO
TELEX : 55 30 SUKKER KH

5/6 1968

Mr. J. Oubet-Baulin, Director
Centre d’ Information et de
Documentation Ivoirien
13, Boulevard Haussmann
Paris
France

Dear Sir,

Re : Sugar Factory Project Niger.

We hereby take pleasure in reverting to your kind letter dated May 4th, addressed to our Mr. N.J. Loft, by which you forwarded the answers to the various questions from the questionnaire which we forwarded to you some time ago

We have now had the opportunity of carefully studying the answers and we are pleassed to inform you that from a technical point of view we now find that the matter has been cleared up as much as it cam by exchange of letters, and we are at present considering the possibility of paying a visit to the proposed factory site in oder further to study the local conditions.

However, there might still be one or two questions which we should like to have elucidadet. Pros the information we have received fros you we have the impression that it is the intention of the authorites of Niger to establish an agricultural projet tac-king car of the canse growing.

We presume that thismeans that the factory is to organise the cane growing itself, without relying upon cne supplies from individual farmers.

We think this is the only way in which an efficient cane growing can be established in a new area whitin a ressonable period of time. We have heard about quite a few cases in other parts of the world where a new sugar factory has been in a very difficult position during ths first 3 - 5 years,because it has to reply upon cane supply from individual farmers, and this supply has been completely insuffieint. It is therefore rather important for